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“And now we’ve got to go get the big one.”
Chiefs defensive banks mostly blanketed Buffalo’s all-pro wide receiver Stefon Diggs, whose added presence this season went so far to help Allen improve from an often over-matched ham-and-egger in his first two NFL seasons, to a worthy MVP candidate this season. Diggs caught two first-half passes for just 12 yards.
With Diggs so often well-covered, or double-covered, or both, Allen hesitated in the pocket way too often on Sunday, and way more than we’d seen him do in any game this season. He was sacked four times for 53 yards in losses, and was hit 10 times.
Do give credit to McDermott’s Bills, however. They didn’t quit. Trailing 38-15 with under eight minutes left, Allen led the Bills against soft coverage to one touchdown, to pull within 38-21. (McDermott inexplicably opted to go for two, which was unsuccessful, leaving them three scores behind, rather than kicking the single to pull within 16 points and two scores.)
Then, after a rare recovery of an onside kick — the NFL’s first since October — the Bills’ Tyler Bass drilled a 51-yard field goal to narrow the deficit to 38-24 with 3:14 left.
Again with the field goal.
But the Chiefs recovered the ensuing Buffalo onside kick, and ran out the clock.
Kansas City punted just once.
“They were the better team tonight,” McDermott said. “The Buffalo Bills will be back.
“This is a learning experience … We didn’t play our best game, we didn’t coach our best game. We’ll be back. We’ve been on a great climb.”
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